• World's largest pool of skilled manpower
• Second largest purchasing power surrounded by emerging and rapidly booming economies.
• Diverse Industrial base - over 2,00,000 private sector factories and 2 million cottage and small scale Industries
• High priority to Infrastructure development
• Rapid economic, fiscal and monetary reforms

GUJARAT : THE INDUSTRIAL POWERHOUSE

Situated in the western coast of India it has a positive business climate for MNCs and big business houses. Gujarat is Entrepreneurs' paradise having attracted the highest amount of foreign Investment during Vibrant Gujarat announcement as India's fastest rising state.

Gujarat is the focal point of Engineering Commerce. All the industries have been given a tough competition by its sector. Infrastructure and resources have attracted most of the global players in this industry to incorporate India on their own maps.

Ahmedabad at one stage has known as Manchester of India due to its massive textile production. It lost its prime position in Late 80s & 90s due to Government policies and distortion in labor laws. Now with liberalization and abolition of quota system once again it is back towards the lost glory As far as petrochemical and petroleum products are concerned Gujarat it gifted with huge fossils resumes which has created massive petrochemical complex at Hazira Vadodara and Now at Jamnagar where Asia's large RIL Refinery is set up with second phase of RIL net growth will have pride to be # 1 refinery center. Gujarat has extremely done well in Dye, Chemical and now it produces more than 50% of drugs. On flip side Gujarat is not doing well in upcoming technologies such as IT, Bio, Nano and even Hi-tech electronics it is not performed destinationation for MNCs due to inadequate technical main power with English language is major barrier. To some extant social infrastructure is not up to the mark e.g. Education and partly prohibition policy has its major role is not attracting talent from national institute.

Gujarat has fully utilized the post liberalization era of economy. It has improved infrastructure and has created industry friendly atmosphere by reshaping by its policies. Also it has developed linkages between NRGs through events like vibrant Gujarat, Kite flying etc. The state offer excellent infrastructure like roads connected to almost each & every metro cities, Electricity (comparatively better than neighboring states Law, order and thrust on improved social infrastructure
   
Industrial Automation (Instrumentation) and Its New Technology Information

Industrial automation can and will generate explosive growth with technology related to new inflection points: nanotechnology and nanoscale assembly systems; MEMS and nanotech sensors (tiny, low-power, low-cost sensors) which can measure everything and anything; and the pervasive Internet, machine to machine (M2M) networking.

Real-time systems will give way to multifaceted adaptive systems and multi-processing. The prospect belongs to nanotech, wireless everything, and complex adaptive systems.

Major new software applications will be in wireless sensors and distributed peer-to-peer networks - tiny operating systems in wireless sensor nodes, and the software that allows nodes to communicate with each other as a larger complex adaptive system. That is the wave of the future.

Automated factories and processes are too expensive to be rebuilt for every modification and design change - so they have to be highly configurable and flexible. To successfully reconfigure an entire production line or process requires direct access to most of its control elements - switches, valves, motors and drives - down to a fine level of detail.

The vision of fully automated factories has already existed for some time now: customers order online, with electronic transactions that negotiate batch size (in some cases as low as one), price, size and color; intelligent robots and sophisticated machines smoothly and rapidly fabricate a variety of customized products on demand

The assumption has always been that the US and other industrialized nations will keep leading in knowledge-intensive industries while developing nations focus on lower skills and lower labor costs. That's now changed. The impact of the wholesale entry of 2.5 billion people (China and India) into the global economy will bring big new challenges and amazing opportunities.

Beyond just labor, many businesses (including major automation companies) are also outsourcing knowledge work such as design and engineering services. This trend has already become significant, causing joblessness not only for manufacturing labor, but also for traditionally high-paying engineering positions.

Innovation is the true source of value, and that is in danger of being dissipated - sacrificed to a short-term search for profit, the capitalistic quarterly profits syndrome. Countries like Japan and Germany will tend to benefit from their longer-term business perspectives. But, significant competition is coming from many rapidly developing countries with expanding technology prowess. So, marketing speed and business agility will be offsetting advantages.

The winning differences

In a global market, there are three keys that constitute the winning edge:

• Proprietary products: developed quickly and inexpensively (and perhaps globally), with a continuous stream of upgrade and adaptation to maintain leadership.
• High-value-added products: proprietary products and knowledge offered through effective global service providers, tailored to specific customer needs.
• Global yet local services: the special needs and custom requirements of remote customers must be handled locally, giving them the feeling of partnership and proximity.

Instrumentation industry is an integral part of Engineering Industry.

GUJARAT: GETTING EQUIPPED FOR THE FUTURE

• Extensive Infrastructure facilities.
• Least man-days lost amongst all major Industrial states.
• The most supportive and flexible state government
• Highest flow of foreign direct Investment
• Largest number of infrastructure projects under implementations
• A Progressive Industrial Policy